Meizu Note9 is a thousand-yuan machine that benchmarks Redmi Note7, but the starting price of the 4 64 version is 1398 yuan, which is higher than Redmi Note7's 1199 yuan, and the other two configurations 6 64 and 4 128 are 1598 yuan, which is also more expensive than Redmi Note7's top configuration of 1399 yuan.
In the market of thousand-yuan machines, manufacturers know the impact of price on sales, and it can be reduced a little, but the cost of hardware is very transparent. Using Snapdragon 675 SoC, Samsung GM1 camera module, and then customizing the screen and camera, the price of Note9 has been basically fixed, even if it is reduced on the back cover of the middle frame, it is not realistic to achieve the price of Redmi Note7.
The appearance of the ID has always been Meizu's selling point, but the back of the Note9 lacks obvious design traces. The previously commonly used central vertical dual camera has become a right vertical dual camera,Physical fingerprint recognition is placed in the middle,The entire back cover is very close to Xiaomi's customary design,It is difficult to associate with the word "beauty"。 The back cover is made of plastic,Using bright porcelain stacking process,Make a texture close to glass,OPPO K1A similar process has been used before,But compared with Redmi Note7The fifth generation Gorilla Glass before and after,There is a cost gap。
Note9The middle frame is also made of plastic,Although it also achieves the look of metal,But there will be a little cheap feeling when you get started,If you match the white back cover,The sense of cheapness will be more obvious,It is recommended to give preference to the black version。 The interface part retains the 3.5mm headphone jack and Type-C jack, which is worth encouraging.
The front of the Note9 is an FHD LCD waterdrop screen, provided by Xinli, at first glance it sounds like a waterdrop screen, but Meizu has customized the front camera and screen, and the camera is shallow, so the area of the entire water droplet is smaller than other models on the market, and the front look is very good. If you're looking to make a trade-off between the front and the back, it's definitely better to lean towards the front, as most users use phone cases and spend significantly longer time looking at the front screen.
The overall performance of the screen is average, with a manual maximum brightness of around 400 nits and no support for sunlight screens, while the Redmi Note7 has a maximum brightness of around 550 nits. Note9The color temperature of the screen is on the cold side, above 8000k, the color temperature can be adjusted, but it does not support color management, the average Delta E is 4.2, and the maximum Delta E is 6.6, which is larger than the color shift of the Redmi Note7 in standard mode (2.4) and enhanced mode (3.5). The common edge dimming of LCD special-shaped screens also exists on Note9, and it is normal to be slightly darkened, but if it is too obvious, it is a quality problem.
The Meizu Note9 is powered by the Snapdragon 675 SoC, which is digitally between 670 and 710, but performance cannot be defined so simply. From a hardware point of view, the core of the 675 is based on the A76 architectureKryo 460, the two large cores are 2.0GHz, and the 6 small cores are 1.7GHz, which is not as good as the 660 4 2.2GHz plus 4 1.8GHz, but it is better than Kryo 460, and the official said that there is a 20% performance improvement compared to Kryo 360. In Geekbench's running score, the 675's single-core can run to about 2400, which is a significant improvement from the 660's 1600 points, but back to the multi-core, both are around 5900 points, with a gap of just over 100 points.
The GPU part is the Adreno 612, which is a significant improvement over the 660 Adreno 512, but a regression compared to the 670 Adreno 615. In order to make up for the gap with the 615, Qualcomm increased the frequency of the GPU to 845MHz, which can indeed improve the performance of the GPU, but under the 11nm process, too high the GPU frequency will cause the body to heat up in high-load games, and the power consumption will also be significantly increased.
It is difficult to make up for the gap in hardware scheduling of software,In the glory of the king after the overhaul,675The frame rate fluctuation is also greater than that of670、710,The whole process fluctuates between 30 frames and 60 frames,If you have strong daily game needs,It is still recommended to buy 710 models。
675Compared with 660 and 710, the biggest improvement is the ISP part, optimized from Spectra 250 to Spectra 250L, in addition to supporting 25 million single cameras and 16 million dual cameras, it can also support 48 million direct photos, multi-frame noise reduction, 720P/480FPS slow motion without usage restrictions, hybrid autofocus and 4K/30FPS video shooting. The optimization mentioned by Meizu at the press conference naturally has the credit of camera engineers, but it is actually based on the hardware improvement of the Snapdragon 675.
In daily photography,The same Samsung GM1 camera module,Redmi Note7Spectra 160 is inferior to Spectra 250L,Although the GM1 sensor can only output 48 million photos through interpolation,But 4-in-1 output12 million,Meizu Note9The resolution of details is better than that of Redmi Note7。 In daytime imaging, the Meizu Note9 also does a better job of color reproduction than the Redmi Note7, which is always a little grayish. In a large light ratio environment, the Redmi Note7 can retain some dark details, but the Meizu Note9 improves the brightness of the dark parts, and the details are clearer.
The night scene part is also a major selling point of Note9,But compared with Redmi Note7It is difficult to clarify which is better or worse,Meizu's advantage lies in highlight suppression,But the effect is not natural,Distant objects that do not shine will be blurred,Dark details will also be missing,Redmi Note7Although it did not suppress the highlights,But the brightness of the picture has been improved,The dark details are more intact,The weak light will also be retained,The two styles are not the same,Opinion。 Meizu Note9 has a tripod night scene mode, 17 photos are combined into 1 photo, it is impossible to complete it handheld, but it is usually not used to shoot night scenes with a tripod and mobile phone, which is an entertainment function.
In the sub-camera part, although Meizu claims to have customized a 3 million black and white depth of field sub-camera, but in the thousand-yuan machine, there will still be obvious misjudgments in the details of the background blur. Meizu has added a male beauty selfie function on the Note9, and there will be obvious misjudgments in the actual use process, in addition to skin grinding, foundation and lip gloss will also be added, but to a slightly lower degree.
In terms of system, Note9 is equipped with Flyme7.2 based on Android 9, and there is no big problem in terms of function, mainly because of the cliché advertising problem, which is almost everywhere and cannot be turned off.
In terms of charging battery life, Meizu Note9 comes standard with 18W fast charging, 4000mAh large battery, theoretically battery life is not a big problem, but the control of power consumption is far less than that of SoCs such as 660 and 710, and the power loss speed is relatively fast, considering that the launch time of Snapdragon 675 is still short, Meizu also lacks experience in polishing the Snapdragon processor, and can only look forward to follow-up optimization. As for charging from 0 to 100%, the 18W charging head also takes close to two hours, which is very close to the Redmi Note 7.